It's a potent little tranquilizer called Miltown, after the New Jersey hamlet where it was born in 1955.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother’s Helper] Reference

The rise and success of the pill Miltown in the mid 1950's was swift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea] Reference

Miltown, she writes, "arrived in a society preoccupied with anxiety and committed to its containment.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother’s Helper] Reference

At one point Miltown accounted for one out of three prescriptions in the US; by 1957 36 million prescriptions for it had been filled!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea] Reference

By the mid 1960's, Miltown developed a bad reputation for physical and psychological dependence, and its use was severely restricted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea] Reference

In a recent New Yorker piece, Louis Menand makes the point that in an age of anxiety, Miltown was sold as "the cost of success in a competitive world".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Daniel Seidman: Sometimes, "Don't Just Do Something, Sit There!" Is a Good Idea] Reference

THE EVIDENCE: Despite little marketing, Miltown became the fastest-drug in U.S. history, inspiring cocktails, jewelry — even an Oscar-night shout-out in 1956, when host Jerry Lewis cracked that nominees who didn't win an award could enjoy a buttered Miltown in the lobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother’s Helper] Reference

The Evidence: Despite little marketing, Miltown became the fastest-selling drug in U.S. history, inspiring cocktails, jewelry — even an Oscarnight shout - out in 1956, when host Jerry Lewis cracked that nominees who didn't win an award could enjoy a buttered Miltown in the lobby.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Mother Found Her Little Helper] Reference

After Battery, McTernan toured with a group called Miltown.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

When the young Robert was only twelve months old the Harts moved to Miltown, on the banks of beautiful Lough Neagh, remaining there barely a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Robert Hart]

These first forays in what was to become a lifelong vocation as a drug-cabinet cowboy usually yielded Miltown, phenobarbital, and all those other mother's little helpers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Miltown, from his not being particularly adapted for an equestrian display, appeared in their several chariots on the outskirts of the ring, an occasional lull in the wordy tumult permitting the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways and Byways in Surrey] Reference

Crown on the occasion of a former trial, that you had told the people (I believe from the altar) that the town was to be made as a city of the dead during the former trial; and that in consequence the soldiers and police could get nothing to eat or drink in Miltown that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

The Charity, whose aim is to design, build and maintain mountain bike trails in the Glasgow area, specifically concentrating on Miltown of Campsie and surrounding areas, is seeking new members to help improve their chances of securing Forestry Commission permission to lease land and build new trails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singletrack World] Reference

Father White of Miltown-Malbay, taking exception to the statement made by me, upon the authority of Colonel Turner, that he was "the moving spirit" of the local "boycott" of policemen and soldiers at that place, addressed a note to Colonel Turner on the 5th of September, in which he desired to know whether Colonel Turner, had given me grounds for making this statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

Two visitors ” not by any means an everyday occurrence in Miltown ” were within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Robert Hart]

Morrissey, O. A.R, McCurdy and the Miltown Beatdown Hip Hop Olympics rock the music scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [OnMilwaukee.com] Reference

It would have been Miltown, not phenobarbitol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women] Reference

Librium, Miltown – but heavy on the aspirin.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor] Reference

The "Boycott" at Miltown-Malbay (p. 209) 264.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

(72), from Miltown today that drivers could face increased toll charges under Government plans to sell off the Dartford Crossing on the M25 - Europe's busiest motorway.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Holiday traffic at a standstill] Reference

Miltown, 311t.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Miltown-Malbay. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)] Reference

Government -- O'Connell listens to them -- The eleven measures -- Views of the advanced Repealers -- Lord Miltown's letter to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference